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Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture
Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture wherein believers are assisted in preparing their hearts, and exciting their affections and graces, when they draw nigh to God in that most awful and solemn ordinance of the Lords Supper / by Jo. Flavel ...
London: printed for Jacob Sampson, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Doct.
That the rigour and severity of Divine Justice was executed upon Jesus Christ; when he suffered for us: God did not spare him.
That the rigor and severity of Divine Justice was executed upon Jesus Christ; when he suffered for us: God did not spare him.
In Zach. 13. 7. you have Gods Commission given to the Sword of ⟨p. 110⟩Justice, to smi• his own Son, and that without pity. Awake, O Sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, smite the Shepherd, &c. And when this Commission came to be executed upon Christ, the Text tells us, God did not spare him. All the Vials of his wrath were poured out to the last drop.
In Zach. 13. 7. you have Gods Commission given to the Sword of ⟨p. 110⟩Justice, to smi• his own Son, and that without pitty. Awake, O Sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, smite the Shepherd, &c. And when this Commission came to be executed upon Christ, the Text tells us, God did not spare him. All the Vials of his wrath were poured out to the last drop.